Quotes by Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was a lawyer and ANC organiser who was convicted of sabotage in 1964 and spent twenty-seven years in prison, eighteen of them on Robben Island. He negotiated the end of apartheid from inside it, became South Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994, and served a single term. He backed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission rather than prosecutions. His lines about freedom and forgiveness are quoted by people who rarely mention that he had also led an armed wing.